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January 23, 2019

2018 - The benefit of being tempted? Self-control, self-confidence and economic choices - Claes Ek - Gothenburg School of Economics

People sometimes choose to voluntarily limit their scope of action in order to better resist immediate temptations that are contrary to their...

January 23, 2019

2018 - "It's a retail revolution": The international challenges of digitalization - Emilia Rovira Nordman - Stockholm School of Economics, SIR

Although Sweden has long provided the breeding ground for global success stories like H&M and IKEA, we see that today's Swedish retailers are...

January 23, 2019

2018 - Olle Söderberg - a biography - Alexander Husebye - Föreningen Centrum för Näringslivshistoria

This project aims to use two biographies to chronicle the Söderberg family’s journey from entrepreneurship to philanthropy in the late 19th century...

January 23, 2019

2018 - Financial Economics: "Markets, Firms and Information Flows" - Marieke Bos - Stockholm School of Economics, SHoF

The Swedish House of Finance organizes an annual conference on a theme in financial economics. This year's theme is "information flows between financial...

January 23, 2019

2018 - Early banking in Sweden 1850-1920, stage 2 - Magnus Andersson - Gothenburg School of Economics

The aim of the study is to show the role of the emerging banks in Sweden and their participants in the transition to the...

January 25, 2018

2017 - The law of war in the Swedish constitution: a moving target - Inger Österdahl - Uppsala University, Sweden

The project aims to explore the interplay between international law, EU law and the form of government in the field of international military use of force. The project will...

January 25, 2018

2017 - Standardization and application of law in contract law - Ola Svensson - Lund University

A characteristic feature of Swedish law is that regulations must be enacted by law if they relate to the financial relations between individuals. This means that...

January 25, 2018

2017 - The European Union's measures against BEPS in Swedish legal perspective - Lars Samuelson - Uppsala University, Sweden

The aim is to examine the European Union's (EU) measures against BEPS - i.e. base erosion and profit shifting through...

January 25, 2018

2017 - Abusive treatment in schools - responsibility and enforcement - Maria Refors Legge - Stockholm University

All children in Sweden have the right to education. This is something that is guaranteed to them in both Swedish law and in...

January 25, 2018

2017 - Electronic contracts - Lena K. Olsen - Uppsala University, Sweden

This is an application for a continuation grant. The original project was based on a book "Communications Law in the Electronic Media Landscape"...

January 25, 2018

2017 - Young offenders with severe mental disorder at the time of the offense - Kerstin Nordlöf - Örebro University

Under Swedish criminal law, unlike most other legal systems, a person suffering from a serious mental disorder...

January 25, 2018

2017 - The Binding Memory: The History of the Law Faculty at Lund University - Kjell Å. Modéer - Lund University

In connection with Lund University's 350th anniversary, the Faculty of Law has published a faculty history, written by the undersigned Professor Emeritus of Legal History Kjell...